6 Site, Program, Biomimicry

NOTES FROM WEEK 6:

I. Site Analysis Examples:
– Jenna LH Smith’s Revitalizing the Rose thesis blog
– Matthew Nick Byers’ Gateway Transit Centre

II. Programming examples:
– Alice Peterson’s Gateway Education Center
– Jared Barak’s A Place to Make for Lents video
– UO Planning projects (i.e. Chapman Hall Programming by Hacker & Allen Price Science Commons Conceptual Design by Pivot)

III. ACTIVITY: Small group development of Program material
Begin with each person making a pitch for their program idea, then brainstorm
in groups:
– Site-driven: What is the best use for the location? vs. Program-driven:
Where is the best place for my program?
– How can we most efficiently learn about how the activities really work? (find
the best local & remote experts, make them interested)
– How can the building support an EcoDistrict vision?

IV. BIOMIMICRY

• Biomimicry 3.8 Life Principles and DesignLens
• Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter at MIT Media Lab (Beast chaise longue)
  Laia Mogas, Daniel Lizardo’s Dragonfly wing of Robotically 3D printed hydrogel:  with process by Jared Laucks, Jorge Duro-Royo and others.
• HouMinn’s Open Sourse Wall
• Neal Panchuk’s thesis on Biomimicry & Parametric Design: adaptive miura-ori folding w excellent research (on course folder)
• Natural Structures: strategies for geometric and morphological optimization by Perez-Garcia and Gomez-Martinez
• Biomimicry presentation by Nicole Isle and Aron Bosworth of Brightworks, with urban water system to mimic creek to river hierarchy.